Delaware · Private foundation
The Silseth Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $620k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $184,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 41
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Silseth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 43 | $615k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $443k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $369k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $218k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmbrook Church | $567,429 | 5 | n/a |
| Christian Solidarity International Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Faith Bible Church of Naples Inc | $61,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Brooklink Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $51,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Global Serve International Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Serenity Inns Inc | $34,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Silseth Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Silseth Foundation
- How much does The Silseth Foundation give?
- The Silseth Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $619,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 41 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Silseth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), International (14%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Silseth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Elmbrook Church ($567k), Christian Solidarity International Inc ($80k), Faith Bible Church of Naples Inc ($61k).
- Does The Silseth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Silseth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Silseth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Silseth Foundation based?
- The Silseth Foundation is based in DE.
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